Australian Aboriginal Culture Research Paper

Before the protection act was placed, the Australia white settlers attempted to assimilate the Indigenous people into a white society, making them wear their clothes and learn their customs. In the 1830s, the British government decided that there had to be more done to protect the Aboriginal people. So, four ‘protectorates’ were set up in Victoria (william, 2014). The protectorates set aside land for the Indigenous people to protect them from aggressive white people; however, it failed in the long term. The government kept trying to find ways to improve the Indigenous peoples way of life, but never once consider that the Aboriginal community saw nothing wrong with how they lived and didn’t realize that they have been living off the land for thousands of years. The only reason they now needed to be “protected” was because of the white settlers stealing their land and trying to convert them into a white way of living. The introduction of the new diseases started killing off the Aboriginal community, so the Australia government made a reserve for the community to die peacefully, however, instead of dying out, the Indigenous population started to grow. On the reserves, they were safe from the white settlers and now had the freedom to practice their traditions. Though, this freedom

Compare the effects of colonisation of Australia’s two Indigenous groupings: Australian Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

The arrival of the free settlers to Australia had both immediate and long term impacts on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, all of which contributed to the decline of indigenous people and their culture. In the short term, the arrival of free settlers had only negative impacts on the indigenous people, causing violent outbreaks, dispossession of land as well the death of many by disease. In the long term, the effects were also negative as the population and culture of indigenous people had been reduced severely.

There are still many social adversities that statistically Aboriginals are more prone to than whites such as domestic violence and substance abuse. The government aims to help out the Aboriginal community with even more benefits than the white Australian receives such as free medical care and legal services, help with housing requirements and many payment options to help those in need. Despite all this being Aboriginals on average have a lower level of employment to non-indigenous Australians and have a lower level of education. This is slightly similar to South Africa following apartheid although to less of an extent, poverty levels being higher and land still being owned by whites. It is very much similar to that of USA where their black community on average is more so in poverty than their white counterpart, although they are given the same rights and opportunities theoretically the social barriers still

Over the past 230 years, Aboriginals have protested in many different ways to gain rights, which they believe they are deserving of. Through aims of what they wanted to achieve, the processes they went through brought them disappointment over the poor results of some actions and pleasure over the success of others. Over those years, very few periods of protest have been as revelational or effective as the protests occurring between 1938 and 1972. During this period many different groups of Aboriginals have fought for the common cause of being recognised as people rather than interferences caught in the midst of Australians expansion as a nation.

Throughout Australian history, Aboriginal people have been displaced and mistreated through the course of time, through the separation from their from kinship groups, land and the stolen generation. This has resulted in the connection to their dreaming lost, misconnection and loss of their sacred sites and traditional food from their land. As a consequence of the stolen generation, many aboriginal children were deprived of their parents, families, spirituality, language from their land and their cultural identity. All of these aspects contribute to the continuing effect of dispossession on Aboriginal spiritualities.

Before the European settlers arrived in Australia, Indigenous people traditionally led very healthy lifestyles. Their diet consisted of a great variety of fruits and vegetables which they found fresh on the land. The also ate some animal meat which helped to balance their diets. The Aboriginal people did not suffer greatly from disease and were not often sick. “Minor ailments that they did suffer from were often related to the environment they lived in (snake bites, skin irritations, burns from fires), injuries they received from their lifestyle (walking over rugged landscapes, climbing trees for food) and the quality of the food they ate...” and they were always treated by traditional medicines made from local plants. Unfortunately, the health of the Indigenous people worked against the Indigenous people when the Europeans arrived. Because of the lack of illness amongst the Indigenous people, they had not built up immunity to disease. The Europeans exposed a variety of diseases to Indigenous people such as smallpox, influenza, measles, whooping cough, etc. As the settlement in Australia grew, so did the Indigenous people’s exposure to different diseases. These diseases reduced the population of Indigenous people in Australia. Though they tried to fight the diseases with their traditional medicine, it was unsuccessful. When the European settlers arrived in Australia, they did not only bring new people and lifestyles to Australia but also new

Aboriginals or indigenous Australians are the native people of Australia. Aboriginals were nomadic people who came to Australia about 40,000 – 60,000 years ago from Southeast Asia. Religion is a great part of Aboriginal culture. The essay answers these questions: What do Aboriginals belief? What is a Kinship system? What is Dreaming and Dreamtime? What rituals does Aboriginals have?

Indigenous Australians had a better health, in "1788 with the British arrival diseases like venereal syphilis, scarlet fever, measles, tuberculosis, Influenza, gonorrhoea and small pox, " (Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet, 2015) all the above diseases were introduced in to the wider communities of Indigenous Australians. Because of these many lives have been lost.

“We cultivated our land, but in a way different from the white man. We endeavor to live with the land; they seemed to live off It.” – Tom Dystra, Aboriginal elder

In the corner of the present Australian flag resides a miniature Union Jack. Millions of these flags fly throughout Australia, providing the Aboriginal people with a constant reminder of the British presence in Australia. By 1788, Britain appeared to be an imperializing superpower; they had control of India and many places in Africa and had just lost the colonies in America. In 1788, Captain James Cook arrived on the east coast of Australia and just like Britain had done many times before, Cook claimed the land for Britain. Evidence suggests that, in doing so, he failed to recognize that there were people who had been living off this land for over 50,000 years, termed the Aboriginal people. Britain established Australia as a penal colony, and drove Aboriginals off their land in order to make room for both prisoners and free settlers. These first encounters set the stage for the next 300 years of interactions between the Aborigines and the British. Until the beginning of the 21st century, the British seem to have seen the Aborigines as a primitive people and the only way to “deal” with them was through strict control and enforcing British customs. While some may argue that the British were trying to protect the Aboriginal people, a closer look into their aggressive arrival and unwanted control reveals that the British did not appear impact the Aboriginal people in a positive way, but instead perpetrated centuries

Health and community service workers can identify the impact of cultural factors on service delivery to Aboriginal and Torres Strait client by building cordial relationships with other local Indigenous community controlled organisations that can share valuable referral services and advice about issues regarding issues like death and dying, to provide for the needs of their clients and the clients' families.

contemporary aboriginal & European relations. Last Indian Residential School in Canada closed (in BC last one closed in 1984).

Life was phenomenal for the Aboriginal people, they were living a great, cheerful, and peaceful life until one explorer arrived, they saw a massive ship that sailed on to their land. A man named Christopher Columbus came. After that day, all the Aboriginal people’s life became abominable. The Europeans brought with themselves a new lifestyle, tradition, language, culture, and beliefs. It changed the Aboriginal people’s life massively. This essay will describe what happened when the Canadian government forced the aboriginal people to go to Residential Schools and what hardship the aboriginal people faced during the northern gateway pipeline dilemma.

The process of colonisation by European powers, as might be expected, has had a radical effect on Aboriginal culture. The settlers viewed the natives as barbarians, seizing tribal land and, in many cases, following a policy of pacification by force. Many others died of disease, starvation, cultural dislocation and neglect. Today, there are fewer than 230,000 Aborigines in Australia, less than 2% of the population.